The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa announced a 20-percent rate hike for sewer customers, effective Jan.1. The average residential customer uses 11,000 gallons of sewage per quarter and will see thir bill go up from
$78.25 to $93.00

A state required corrective action plan to reduce overload conditions is what authority officials say is to blame for the increase. The additional revenue will go towards those required projects.

There is now an official title for the upcoming biopic starring Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers.It will be titled “A Beautiful Day in the Neighboorhood.” Filming was done in Pittsburgh earlier this year.

According to Sony Pictures, the film will be in theaters October 2019.

70 year old Kenneth Himes, who suffers from dementia, was last seen at his brother’s home on Cadogan Slate Lick Road in South Buffalo Township, Armstrong County, around 11 p.m. Tuesday when his family put him to bed. On Wednesday morning, they noticed he was missing.

Police spent much of Wednesday searching for him, but called off their efforts for the night at 5 p.m.

When the search resumed Thursday morning, the search area was expanded to include Northpointe and the river. Authorities are also working at a pond near where Himes was last seen.

State police are asking any property owners or hunters with trail cameras in the area of Cadogan Slate Lick Road near Ford City to check them for evidence of Himes.

Anyone with information should call 724-543-2011.

According to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, Statewide, gasoline is about five cents cheaper in Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region remains one of the most expensive regions in the country this week. Prices are about $2.60 per gallon in Pittsburgh & Beaver

On the National Front
Nearly 20 percent of states are currently enjoying prices below $2.00 per gallon.
Heading into 2019, gasoline demand is expected to dwindle during the month of January, an expected change following the busy holiday travel season. At the same time, OPEC will begin production cuts on January 1, with hopes that the shift in global supply will push oil prices higher. The effectiveness of the cuts will not likely be known until later in the first quarter.

WEATHER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018

TODAY: Periods of rain. High 58F.

TONIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Low 47F

SATURDAY: Sunshine and some clouds. High 52F

SUNDAY: Cloudy skies early, followed by partial clearing. High 47F.

Beaver County Commissioners approved a 2019 budget by a 2-1 vote. Commissioner Sandie Egley was the no vote. The budget overall totals 220 million plus with 75 million allotted for the general fund. There will be no tax increase and acting budget director Corey Trautman says the current budget will finish the year in the black. Commissioners unanimously approved an eight million dollar tax anticipation note with Huntington Bank.

The search for a missing man in Armstrong County has resumed this morning.
70 year old Kenneth Himes was last seen around 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Day along Cadogan Slate Lick Road in South Buffalo Township according to state police.
The search was called off around 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
Himes suffers from dementia and is described as being 6-feet-2-inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. He has short, light brown and gray hair with blue eyes.

He was last seen wearing a black winter coat with black pants and a black hat.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

Officials in Ross Township said Mail fell from a tractor-trailer as it pulled out of the U.S. Post Office on McKnight Road Thursday morning.

The incident, which was reported shortly before 7 a.m., sent the mail onto the busy roadway.

After Police arrived the mail was loaded onto carts and returned to the post office.

Dylan Bornschlegel said “Everything was fine.” when he was picked up by an Uber early the morning of Dec. 12 from the intersection of 12th and Carson streets.

Bornschlegel said the driver wanted a drink so they stopped at CoGo’s. “I must have accidentally left my phone in the car. And when I came out, the driver was gone.”

Panicked, he ran inside the store and called his mother, Kim Sommers whose credit card information is in her son’s Uber account. While talking, she was getting updates on her phone saying that the driver was continuing to accept rides. Eventually, Sommers put a stop on the phone and the credit card, but the driver had racked up hundreds of dollars of charges.

The pair contacted Uber, which almost immediately refunded the money. They say they tried calling the driver to get the phone back, but when the number they dialed called back, it was a woman who said she had never been in an Uber her whole life.

Pittsburgh police cannot corroborate the details of this story, as they’re still investigating.

Uber issued a statement saying: “What’s been reported is unacceptable. The rider reported this to us and we immediately issued a refund and removed the driver from the app.”

Uber says they’re also looking into this and says they have stringent background requirements for drivers.